By Mark Buckton - Taipei When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 it did more than redraw the ...

Before dawn on a December morning in 2025, Japanese air defenses tracked an unusual formation: Russian and Chinese long-range ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Analysts say China’s latest military exercises are aimed at deterring closer US-Japan security ties ...

The future F-35A jet squadron on Hokkaido will be Japan's fifth unit operating the stealth aircraft, the defense ministry said, meaning Komatsu Air Base's second F-15 jet unit—the 306th Tactical ...

Russia has continued to project military power in the Far East near Japan—a key United States ally—by conducting missile drills and deploying a naval flotilla that included a submarine. Japan's ...

MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that any dialogue with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally end World War Two could only begin once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a ...

A Russian IL-20 Electronic Intelligence surveillance aircraft was observed flying over the Sea of Japan near Japan Oct. 25, 2025. Japan’s Joint Staff Office photo Russian IL-20 Electronic Intelligence ...

Russian submarine RFS Volkhov (B-603), shown here, and a PLAN submarine sailed together for the first time in early August 2025 in the Sea of Japan. The Russian submarine was spotted Aug. 20, 2025, ...

For Japan, the Sino-Russian alignment in wartime narratives is more than a contest over memory – it generates real geopolitical effects. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left), Chinese President Xi ...

MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/. The scandal surrounding Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories (the name for the southern part of the Kuril Islands in Japan) Affairs Hitoshi Kikawada, who ...